I know I should have posted something before now but, to be honest, what is there to say about the CBC web redesign that hasn’t already been said about the Globe? Like, why? Or, as a colleague said, “where’s the news? I don’t like having to look for it.” When will news-website designers learn that…
The co-founder of Twitter has told Reuters he wants to work with other news organizations to create a Twitter News Service. To read more about what Biz Stone envisions, click through.
Ann Louise Bardach and the New York Times have been fighting for five years to stop the reporter from being ordered to testify in the pre-trial of a Cuban anti-Castro militant indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction, naturalization fraud and providing false statements to immigration authorities. Bardach has now been ordered to testify. The Reporters…
An interesting posting on why one journalist — I know, there are many — thinks the rest of us should understand Twitter at the very least and get onto it. The CBC’s John Gushue links us back to the reasons Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger believes in Twitter.
Just wondering: Did anyone else out there confuse today’s Globe with a Loblaws flyer? And is it just coincidence the dominant colour is the same one in the front-page ad?
The facts are unclear but it appears a Reuters journalist has died bringing the truth to us all. When does it end?
Do we need to bring back science beats? Take a look at this article, that addresses the notion more science coverage would lead to better climate-related policies — or would it?
Sorry, missed this one on Friday but it appears Christie Blatchford has angered at least a few folks with her new book. Members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Anti-Racist Action apparently didn’t want her to speak on Nov. 12 as part of a tour promoting her new book on the land-rights conflict between the Ontario government and…
Kalle Lasn asks why in today’s National Post. Read the J-Source story that examines the issue.
Thanks to Deb Jones for sending this. UBC law and journalism schools partner to investigate wrongful convictions Canada’s first journalism-law student partnership on wrongful convictions has been launched at the University of British Columbia, with graduate journalism students and law students investigating miscarriages of justice in B.C. Priority will be given to the more than…